How Baltimore’s Freddie Gray activists are shaping the response to George Floyd’s death | The World

June 3, 2020 by News Desk

Kwame Rose emerged as one of Baltimore’s most prominent activist voices during the 2015 protests over Freddie Gray’s death.

Five years on, as protestors again take to the streets over the killing of George Floyd, he says he wants the city to be a model of how protests can be calm and effective – and he’s calling out agitators looking to incite black rage.

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In This Story: George Floyd

George Floyd was an African-American man who died on 25th May 2020 in Powderhorn, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, following police arrest. Video recording by a witness, showing Floyd repeating “Please”, “I can’t breathe”, and “Don’t kill me”, was widely circulated on social media platforms and broadcast by media. The incident led to widespread protests across the United States.